Lewis Hamilton at Ferrari: What has gone wrong so far? And is there optimism for the future?
It is inevitable that Ferrari will face this criticism. Leclerc and Hamilton won 11th and 12th in the first home races of the season in Imola.
Both drivers understood the lack of upgrade. Since the fourth race in Bahrain, the first of them came to Austria last weekend, and both drivers admitted that they were a step forward, but how long it would take time to judge. More is coming.
However, Vasseur insists that the car is better than the team shows in the last races.
“The first target was to fight for the championship,” Canada said in Canada, “but I think it’s true for us, McLaren, Red for Red Bull, for Mercedes. We’re all in this mood to fight for the championship at the beginning of the season.
“If you compare it with expectations, it is probably one step ahead compared to everyone. And we didn’t do a good job on our side.
“If we just talk about us, we didn’t do a good job in a few races.”
After both cars in China have been disqualified, 60 points behind Red Bull and 40 of them are behind the two races for Mercedes. Now, the second in the makers championship. On the Flip side, they have almost half of McLaren.
Vasseur describes it as a “good healing”.
Ferrari has a stronger combined driver series than Red Bull and Mercedes, despite the position of the constructors’ championship, Leclerc is fifth in the drivers – behind both McLaren drivers and the leading drivers of Red Bull and Mercedes.
“McLaren is still one step ahead,” he says. “This means that we need to continue to do a better job and develop every day.
“If you want to get a good result today, you should bring everything together in the right place, because I think it is much more among cars, which performance you get from tires and tires or tires.
“The car doesn’t matter. If the team is doing a very good job on the tires, they will be in front of it. It will be like this until the end of the season. But for everyone, we have to do a better job.”
As for Hamilton, he sees this as a building year in which new rules for 2026 bring revised cars and engines and Ferrari expects to fight on the front.
Generally, it was not particularly comfortable with automobile species introduced with 2022 arrangements that demand a different driving style from previous arriving. Next year’s cars can be different in terms of design and can be different in terms of character.
“The truth is, I hope we can still fight for the second time at the builders’ championship.” Says. “This would be great.
“But I want a car that can win next year. So priority. We came here to come.”
